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Date Posted: 23:55:43 07/14/08 Mon
Hi Everyone,
I was asked to post this to the discussion site, the site I looked at has some great resources and you can download some of the books for free to peruse thenm at your leisure.
Assignment 5
Practical Exercise - Looking up programs
I looked up phonics program on www.google.com, many programmes came up and I looked at many of them. Some of them, for example Ruth Miskin’s Read Write Inc and Jolly Phonics, are already known to me, so after a lot of consideration I chose the following site.
www.ProgressivePhonics.com
I chose this as it has a slightly different approach to most of the others I looked at. Initially it looked as if it was purely a reading programme; however on closer inspection I found that it was a sequential phonics scheme.
Each downloadable book starts with a page of illustrated instructions for the adult, stressing the importance of sharing, repetition, tracking, slow and sure progress and fun. Most of the books also gave ideas for multisensory ways of reinforcing the letter sounds and shapes and as the course progressed explanations of the ways in which the letters worked with one another.
I really liked the fact that as soon as the first 3 letters; d, o, g had been introduced (in the alphabet books) the children were given a book to share with an adult. The words the child is expected to be able to read are in red and it is made very clear that they do not read any other words.
The programme has a range of puzzles, memory games, handwriting sheets, directly relating to the letters and sounds being introduced at that level, and flash cards to use with the books. There is also the choice of using the on screen book or printing it off.
The vowels are not taught in the order that I teach them, magic ‘e’ being taught within some of the vowel combinations and not on its own level. However, the programme is such that you can take what you want from it, adapt it and slip it into whatever programme you are using as a base.
The books that form the base of the programme appear to appeal to young children, I don’t think they would appeal in the same way to older children.
Having looked at this programme I decided to try it out and I used this programme as a means of providing additional material for a young child with dyslexic traits, the red reading words mean she knows what she can read it reinforces her known words, in addition to this it stops her parents from forcing her to try and read words that she is not yet ready for and allows her to share a book with her parents in a more relaxed way. What a result, she is now willing to read to them and this combined with the ‘golden rule’ has made her life at home much less stressful.
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